CVE-2022-49125 drm/sprd: fix potential NULL dereference

What is CVE-2022-49125?

CVE-2022-49125 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 26 Feb 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/sprd: fix potential NULL dereference

'drm' could be null in sprd_drm_shutdown, and drm_warn maybe dereference it, remove this warning log.

v1 -> v2: - Split checking platform_get_resource() return value to a separate patch - Use dev_warn() instead of removing the warning log

Weakness: CWE-476

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-49125?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2022-49125?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2022-49125 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-49125 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2013-2094 Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.4
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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49125, GHSA-3hq9-36qr-g9r9, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2022-49125, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49125.